Namecheap Private Email Webmail Features

That`s why Private Email is a great choice for organizations and for the optimization of teamwork. This article gives an overview of the Private email features and instructions on how to organize them efficiently for your personal usage.

NOTE: depending on the email plan you use, some webmail functions or features can be disabled for your package. You can compare technical specifications of Private email plans here.

In order to start using your mail service and set up the necessary features, log in to webmail.

On top of the page you will see Menu bar that contains the following options:

In this section you can compose and send new emails, view received ones and organize your current data. Handy folder-tree menu on the left can be enabled to sort the mail into the folders:

When archiving emails, those emails are moved to Archive folder. The Archive folder contains a
separate subfolder for each calendar year. The archived emails are saved to those subfolders sorted
by the year of receipt.

You can use Archive option to in two possible ways. The first one is to archive single emails. Simply select the emails that should be moved and click on Archive icon:

Additionally, you can archive folder's emails that are older than 90 days. In order to do so, select the needed folder, click on folder-specific actions icon next to the folder name and hit Archive:

You may also use different options for your emails such as: Reply, Forward, Delete, Mark read/unread, Move, Copy, Print, View source, etc.

Address Book allows you to keep and organize your internal and business contacts, sharing public folders with internal participants and creating private ones for your personal overview:

In this menu you can create, edit, delete, move contacts between your folders, create and manage distribution lists for sending emails to the group of recipients. Business and Business Office email plans provide you with the sharing contacts feature.

Private email calendar will help you to keep your business appointments organized in a handy way.
In the Calendar module, you can display calendars and appointments, create appointments, manage calendars and appointments.
It allows you to schedule meetings and activities, specifying the members who can access selected calendars:

Having Business or Business office email plan you can share the calendar with other users within your subscription.

With all Private Email plans (Private, Business and Business Office) you can share a calendar via a link. To generate the link right-click the three horizontal lines next to the calendar name > select Get link:

You can then set a password, expiration date, add recipients and a message and copy the link:

It is possible to create your own calendar or subscribe to the existing Google one using these options:

If you wish to add the Google calendar, go to Subscribe calendar >> click the Google icon. Then, you will need to grant access to your Google calendar. After that the appointments will be imported to a new calendar.

It is a file storage created for uploading and keeping any files, notes, and internet links. You can save the information, share with other users and edit them managing file versions and viewing the history of modifications:

This option allows you to set basic settings for your account in order to make the interface of webmail more adjusted for your individual preferences:

1. Here you can set language, time-zone, refresh-interval and theme settings by choosing the suitable value from drop-down menu.

2. Refresh interval defines the period of time for retrieving new objects from the server.

3. Ticking High contrast theme box will enable special high contrast mode making the background of menu bar white and slightly transparent. Below you can check the difference between those modes:

4. Default app after sign in option defines the application displayed after singing into the email account via webmail. By default you will see your mail after logging in.

5. Automatic sign out menu allows you to specify the time, you will be automatically signed out if you have not worked with the groupware for a while. It can also be disabled by choosing Off value from the drop-down menu.

6. Automatic opening of notification area specifies whether the new notification or incoming email will be automatically opened.

7. My contact data button overlaps the screen with a pop-up window with your Personal Profile. By default First and Last name are submitted by your email address, therefore, you can see user@domain.com user@domain.com in FROM field:

In order to see your actual name, you need to change the contact data, namely, First and Last name fields.

There you can specify personal information such as position, information regarding the contacts of your company etc. Additionally, you can upload the photo to present yourself to other members. Clicking Extended View button, more fields come out:

PLEASE NOTE: If you have previously changed the Your name field in the System Menu >> Accounts >> E-Mail, such a name will be used instead of the one specified in My contact data.

8. Change password.
You may also change the password for your mailbox via Namecheap account, more details can be found here.

There you can link any of your Facebook and Twitter social media profiles to your Private Email webmail account.

It will make easier for you to keep your personal networks at your fingertips, all without having to log in to Facebook or Twitter separately. For example, to post/read tweets, update your account etc.:

Add Mail Account option allows you to configure sharing and unified mail accounts, which is practically the same as adding another (Gmail, Yahoo) email account into webmail interface. Click here for detailed instructions.

Furthermore, you will be able to edit your email account settings clicking on Edit button on the email account tile.

Here you will see four groups of settings regarding mail configuration of mail app in the display area. The first is Common settings:

Ticking Permanently remove deleted emails box, you will specify whether emails will be removed permanently immediately after you click the Delete button or whether they will go to the trash folder.

Automatically collect contacts in the folder 'Collected addresses' while sending specifies whether new email addresses are automatically collected in the Collected contacts folder when sending a new email. While marking Automaticallycollect contacts in the folder 'Collected addresses' while reading box, will enable collecting addresses when reading a new email.

Use fixed-width font for text mails option Specifies whether a fixed-width font is used when composing a plain text email. Fixed-width font or monospaced font is font whose characters occupy the same amount of horizontal space, in a contrary to variable-width fonts.

Ticking Append vCard box you will enable adding your contact data to a new mail in vCard format. vCard is a file format standard for electronic business cards. While enabling Insert the original email text to a reply will append the original text to your reply.

The next small groups refers to Forward emails as settings:

Choosing the Inline option, the email will be resent within the new email text body, however in case you set Attachment option to be used, the text will be sent as an attachment to the new Email.

Format emails as group option allows you to specify whether you would like the text of your emails being sent as HTML markup, Plain Text or both HTML and plain text:

Choosing HTML, you will be able to create formatted text, such as italics and bold, unnumbered lists etc; include images in your email and add hyperlinks. Plain text email contains text only without any formatting and images.

NOTE 1: be advised to use HTML and plain text option, as it allows you to use all pros of HTML markup as well as main advantage of plain text that is increasing the deliverability of the message.

Automatically wrap plain text after character defines the number of characters your text is automatically wrapped, when sending plain text email.

NOTE 2: format email as plain text option should be enabled.
Default sender address field specifies the pre-set address for your new emails.
In order to specify the interval for saving an E-Mail while being composed to the Drafts folder, you should choose the suitable value from the drop-down menu under Auto-save email drafts option.

With Default sender address option you will be able to specify the pre-set sender address for new email:

And using Auto-save email drafts option you will be able to define the interval for saving an email while being composed to the Drafts folder. The disabled option deactivates this function.

The group of Display settings is the following:

Enabling Allow html formatted emails feature, the emails are displayed in html format, although in case the feature is turned off, all mail in your account is displayed in plain text format (no images, italics or bold text).

Ticking Allow pre-loading of externally linked images, you will enable external graphics to be loaded and displayed when receiving an HTML message.

Color quoteslines defines whether original messages are highlighted with a vertical line, while forwarding or replying to one. The messages or replies will be displayed as embedded.

NOTE: this option assumes that the original mail text is not attached but appended to the email.

When sending email, you might want to know whether the message was opened (read receipt). Show requests for read receipts feature allows you to enable requesting the receipts for mail you send.

If you use IMAP email account, you can specify an IMAP folder list that is synced with all the folders contained in your account on the mail server. Simply click on Change IMAP Subscription button and the pop-up window with the list of folder will appear:

Time scale in minutes: specifies the interval for dividing the time grid in the Day, Work week or Week calendar views.
Start of working time: defines the start of the working hours.
End of working time: defines the end of the working hours.
Show declined appointments: defines whether appointments that you refused are displayed.
Default reminder: defines the pre-set time interval for the appointment reminder.
Mark all day appointments as free: defines whether all day appointments are displayed as free per default.

Receive notification for appointment changes: defines whether you will receive an email notification, if the an appointment in which you participate has been re-created, changed or deleted.
Receive notification as appointment creator when participants accept or decline: defines whether you will receive an email notification, if a participant accepted or declined an appointment created by you.
Receive notification as appointment participant when other participants accept or decline: defines whether you will receive an email notification, if a participant accepted or declined an appointment in which you participate.
Automatically delete the invitation email after the appointment has been accepted or declined: defines whether an email notification for an appointment invitation will be automatically deleted when accepting or declining the appointment.

Email notification for New, Changed, Deleted: specifies whether you will receive an email notification if the following is true: A task in which you participate has been re-created, changed or deleted.
Email notification for task creator: specifies whether you will receive an email notification if the following is true - a participant accepted or declined a task created by you.
Email notification for task participant: specifies whether you will receive an email notification if the following is true - a participant accepted or declined a task in which you participate.

This feature allows you to get an overview of your subscribed and published data and to manage them: activate, edit or remove subscriptions or publications and edit or remove a social network's account.

Here you can create Groups and add members there from your address book. One simple click on Add new group button, specifying the name and choosing the privileged members. This feature give you capability to share your contacts with external partners and involve internal members into shared activities: e.g. providing with the permission to edit documents:

Creating new recourse – any room equipment that you schedule instead of a person, is required for resource managing (booking) in Outlook email-client.
An email address for a resource is required by Outlook so that Outlook is able to manage resources:

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